Patience and its perfect work under sudden & sore trialsPatience and its perfect work under sudden & sore tryals

3. Inordinate Fears. When too much trouble comes upon us, we use to fear too much, at the present: And are apt to project a thousand things for the future; as that poverty and beggary will follow: many such fears lay hold upon us, because we see Gods anger hath begun, and we know not the worst, nor when or where twill end. But saith Christ, Rev. 2. 10. [Fear] none of those [things] that thou shalt [suffer.] Be thou [faithful] unto death, and I will give thee a Crown of life. Faith and faithfulness unto ⟨p. 84⟩God, or constancy in enduring unto death, he here opposeth to Fear: and Faith works Patience, and Patience eats out fear. Fortitude and courage differs from Patience in this: that a stout courage in a man of a great Spirit, will indeed overcome FEAR, i• so be he sees any hope of evading: and so will rouse a mans Spirit up to resistance, and defence. But Patience, though it sees no hope▪ as to this life, yea nothing but present death afore it, it will yet strengthen the heart to bear it and make a man [Faithful unt• death] and constant, without prevailing fears, even unto death.

3. Inordinate Fears. When too much trouble comes upon us, we use to fear too much, at the present: And are apt to project a thousand things for the future; as that poverty and beggary will follow: many such fears lay hold upon us, because we see Gods anger hath begun, and we know not the worst, nor when or where •twill end. But saith Christ, Rev. 2. 10. [Fear] none of those [things] that thou shalt [suffer.] Be thou [faithful] unto death, and I will give thee a Crown of life. Faith and faithfulness unto ⟨p. 84⟩God, or constancy in enduring unto death, he here opposeth to Fear: and Faith works Patience, and Patience eats out fear. Fortitude and courage differs from Patience in this: that a stout courage in a man of a great Spirit, will indeed overcome FEAR, i• so be he sees any hope of evading: and so will rouse a mans Spirit up to resistance, and defence. But Patience, though it sees no hope as to this life, yea nothing but present death afore it, it will yet strengthen the heart to bear it and make a man [Faithful unt death] and constant, without prevailing fears, even unto death.